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LINKAGES Integrated Technical Organizational Capacity Assessment (ITOCA) and Action Planning: Facilitator's Guide
LINKAGES Integrated Technical Organizational Capacity Assessment (ITOCA) and Action Planning: Facilitator’s Guide is designed to train LINKAGES’ teams to implement ITOCA. The activities are illustrative, and every facilitator should adapt and adjust his/her content to match the organizational culture and collaboration style, as well as his/her personal preferences for working with groups. The ITOCA is facilitated through a workshop that usually takes three days. This guide covers 14 ITOCA capacity areas, is written from the facilitator’s/workshop planner’s perspective, and includes directives on how to facilitate the ITOCA, including the discussion activities, collection of scores, results analysis and debrief, and development of the ISP.
Monitoring Guide and Toolkit for Key Population HIV Prevention, Care, and Treatment Programs
This publication provides guidance to governments, civil-society organizations (nongovernmental organizations and community-based organizations), and other partners implementing HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs with key populations. It is designed to assist these programs as they establish monitoring systems that are used by front line workers, including peer outreach workers, staff outreach supervisors, program managers, and others to understand performance. It includes comprehensive tools and forms that various levels of staff can use to collect and analyze data to manage and improve the program. It is also available in French.
Most Impacted Least Served: Ensuring the Meaningful Engagement of Transgender People in Global Fund Processes
Extensive barriers remain to sufficiently addressing transgender needs in the HIV epidemic, and little work has been done to document good practices for engaging key donors such as the Global Fund.This report, commissioned by the IRGT: A Global Network of Transgender Women and HIV, examines relevant literature and identifies key themes through six semi-structured interviews with transgender community activists, civil society organization representatives, and officials from the Global Fund and other major HIV donors.
Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for People Who Inject Drugs: Community Voices on Pros, Cons, and Concerns
With this paper, INPUD aims to amplify the voices of people who inject drugs so that their unique knowledge and perspectives can be taken into account as policies related to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) are formulated.
Readiness Assessment: Moving Towards a Country-led and Financed HIV Response for Key Populations
This guide is designed to assess the ability of a country’s stakeholders (including government, development partners, and civil society) to lead and sustain HIV epidemic control among KPs as donors transition to different levels and types of funding.
SMART TA Inventory of Communication Tools
This interactive PDF handbook aims to aggregate all communication tools that have been developed under the SMART TA project for the period between October 2011 and October 2014. It is intended to provide an overview of and clear insights on all communication materials developed during the project life and to meet a variety of communication demands that have arisen since SMART TA's inception, as well as project objectives.
South-to-South Mentoring Toolkit for Key Populations
S2S mentoring implies that all organizations involved, mentor and mentee(s), are rooted in the global South and have direct experience operating in complex low- and middle-income countries.
Success Story: Champions for Positive Living Encourage Sex Workers to Begin or Restart Treatment
In partnership with with the Associação Solidariedade Cristã e Ajuda Mútua (ASCAM), a civil society organization in the capital of Luanda, the LINKAGES team has worked to overcome challenges to follow up with sex workers who test positive for HIV and may be in need of beginning or restarting antiretroviral treatment. To resolve this challenge and boost follow-up, the LINKAGES team and ASCAM implemented two different strategies.
The Nexus of Gender and HIV among Men Who Have Sex with Men in Kenya
This brief was developed to encourage and inform gender-integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment programming for men who have sex with men in Kenya. It can be used by individuals and organizations that deliver services to men who have sex with men; those participating in program design and monitoring and evaluation; and decision makers and funders supporting the programs. It is one in a series of briefs on the Nexus of Gender and HIV among key populations most affected by HIV: men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. Information relevant to individuals who are members of multiple key populations can be found across the series.
The Nexus of Gender and HIV among People Who Inject Drugs in Kenya
This brief was developed to encourage and inform gender-integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment programming for people who inject drugs in Kenya. It can be used by individuals and organizations that deliver services to people who inject drugs; those participating in program design and monitoring and evaluation; and decision makers and funders supporting the programs. It is one in a series of briefs on the Nexus of Gender and HIV among key populations most affected by HIV: men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. Information relevant to individuals who are members of multiple key populations can be found across the series.
The Nexus of Gender and HIV among Sex Workers in Kenya
This brief was developed to encourage and inform gender-integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment programming for sex workers in Kenya. It can be used by individuals and organizations that deliver services to sex workers; those participating in program design and monitoring and evaluation; and decision makers and funders supporting the programs. It is one in a series of briefs on the Nexus of Gender and HIV among key populations most affected by HIV: men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. Information relevant to individuals who are members of multiple populations can be found across the series.
The Nexus of Gender and HIV among Transgender People in Kenya
This brief was developed to encourage and inform gender-integrated HIV prevention, care, and treatment programming for transgender people in Kenya. It can be used by individuals and organizations that deliver services to transgender people; those participating in program design and monitoring and evaluation; and decision makers and funders supporting the programs. It is one in a series of briefs on the Nexus of Gender and HIV among key populations most affected by HIV: men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, and people who inject drugs. Information relevant to individuals who are members of multiple populations can be found across the series.
TRANSIT: Implementing Comprehensive HIV and STI Programmes with Transgender People
This tool contains practical advice on implementing HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) programmes with transgender people and is based on recommendations in the Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment and Care for Key Populations, published in 2014 by the World Health Organization. Topics covered include community empowerment and human rights, addressing violence, stigma and discrimination, and delivering trans-competent services, especially for HIV and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care.
A Fundamental Shift: The Future of the Global MSM and HIV Movement
To anticipate where the MSM, HIV, and human rights movements might be in another 25 years, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) carried out a foresight scenario planning process with several dozen of its stakeholders and partners. MSMGF began with a simple but fundamental question: “What will the global MSM and HIV movements look like in 25 years?” The scenario planning process and its outcomes are documented in MSMGF’s latest publication.
Communities Deliver: the Critical Role of Communities in Reaching Global Targets to End the AIDS Epidemic
This report draws on multiple sources that document the many ways in which communities are advancing the response to AIDS, and the evidence for the effectiveness of these responses. Core areas of community-based activities include advocacy, service provision, community based research and financing are illustrated by innovative examples of community-based actions.
